It is with great excitement at the thought of doing nothing that I issue you a dog-eared wine-spillage-soaked invitation to join my national strike on Mother’s Day.

I am reaching out to you after a survey revealed 15% of dads do not do any housework. And, according to a poll, of the 85% who do help, two-thirds only spend up to two hours on the chores every week. Dear God, we’ve already done that by the time we’ve gone to work.

I’m not saying we should spoil a lovely day. There’s nothing better than receiving a homemade card on a tray of cold toast and a very milky cup of tea on Mothering Sunday.

But we should make the most of it to remind our other halves how much we do.

Because by 4pm on Sunday, our special day is forgotten. Someone’s got to wash the uniforms, hang them out to dry, make sure homework is done, check there’s enough milk for cereal and bread for sandwiches, work out what’s for dinner tomorrow, add whatever you’ve run out of to the shopping list and remember to buy a birthday card at lunch tomorrow. It’s not as if housework is the only thing we have to do. A huge 68% of mums have a job on top of being the main carer and skivvy. Coupled with the sky-scraping cost of living, the pressure to have it all and a desire to be just as entitled to have a life outside of the family home as dads do, that figure can only rise. After all, ONS figures show the number of working women with dependent children has leapt by almost a fifth since the mid-1990s – leaping by 800,000 to 5.3 million since 1996.

That’s why I’m suggesting we go on strike on Sunday – to challenge the situation which sees us with one foot in the modern world and the other in the 1950s where we are expected to be a domestic goddess. We have equality at work; why not at home?

I don’t think we should spend the day at our front gates, holding placards and shouting scab at any mum we see unloading plastic bags from the car on Sunday.

Instead we could simply post a photo on Twitter or Facebook to show what we’re doing instead of the housework. I’ve even got a hashtag ready #mumsonstrike!